Pesquisa dos Modelos de Valor Adicionado (MVA) para as políticas de educação: Delimitação da discussão

Autores

  • Audrey Amrein-Beardsley Arizona State University
  • Clarin Collins Arizona State University
  • Sarah A. Polasky Arizona State University
  • Edward F. Sloat Arizona State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v21n4.2013

Palavras-chave:

valor agregado, modelos de avaliação de professores, de responsabilidade do professor

Resumo

Neste artigo, os editores convidados desta edição especial da EPAA/AAPE sobre a Pesquisa dos Modelos de Valor Adicionado (MVA) para as políticas de educação: (1) Apresentam  o contexto político em torno do uso dos MVA na avaliação de professores e de responsabilização nos Estados Unidos, (2) um resumo dos cinco trabalhos de pesquisa e o comentário que foram selecionados para inclusão nesta edição especial, e (3) analisar a relevância dos trabalhos selecionados tanto individualmente como coletivamente. Sua importância é discutida em termos da contribuição de cada artigo para a pesquisa geral sobre este tema e as potencialidades de cada artigo para informar a política educacional. Além disso, os artigos refletem o nosso pensamento sobre a produção de decisões e MVA, e como são cada vez mais utilizados.

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Biografia do Autor

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Arizona State University

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Her research interests include educational policy, research methods, and more specifically, high-stakes tests and value-added measurements and systems. She was also recently named as one of the top 121 edu-scholars in the nation, honored for being a university-based academic who is contributing most substantially to public debates about the nation's educational system. She is also the creator and host of a show titled Inside the Academy during which she interviews some of the top educational researchers in the academy. For more information please see: http://insidetheacademy.asu.edu.

Clarin Collins, Arizona State University

Clarin Collins, Ph.D., recently graduated from the Educational Policy and Evaluation program in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. For her dissertation study she analyzed teachers’ understanding of and experiences with the SAS Educational Value-Added Assessment System (SAS® EVAAS®) in the Houston Independent School District where SAS® EVAAS® is currently used to evaluate teachers with high-stakes consequences. Her research interests include national and local policy implementation at the classroom level, teacher influences on policymaking and implementation, and education evaluation and accountability systems.

Sarah A. Polasky, Arizona State University

Sarah A. Polasky, Ph.D. is an Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. She works as the Value-Added Specialist on the Arizona Ready-for-Rigor Project, a federal Teacher Incentive Fund grant awarded to the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University in 2010. She works to support the implementation of value-added evaluation systems in partnering districts and schools, as well as support the betterment of their evaluation and data systems (e.g., by introducing and including new and unique measures into such systems). Her related research interests include assessment systems in early childhood education, the use of alternative achievement tests (e.g., district benchmarks, formative assessments) and non-achievement (i.e., developmental) data for value-added systems in general, and the impact of socioemotional and neurological development of young children on their academic achievement and growth over time.

Edward F. Sloat, Arizona State University

Edward Sloat, M.Ed. is currently employed as the Director of Research and Accountability at Dysart Unified School District located in Surprise, Arizona. He is also a doctoral student in the Leadership and Innovation Program within the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He has previously served in research, evaluation, and assessment leadership positions at the Arizona Department of Education, Peoria (Arizona) Unified School District, and Glendale (Arizona) Elementary School District. He regularly contributes to state technical and policy working/advisory groups concerning assessment design and accountability systems and is past president of the Arizona Education Research Organization. His academic interests focus on value-added modeling, education accountability and evaluation systems, data-driven instructional planning, applications of measurement theory, and research methods.

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Publicado

2013-01-27

Como Citar

Amrein-Beardsley, A., Collins, C., Polasky, S. A., & Sloat, E. F. (2013). Pesquisa dos Modelos de Valor Adicionado (MVA) para as políticas de educação: Delimitação da discussão. Arquivos Analíticos De Políticas Educativas, 21, 4. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v21n4.2013

Edição

v. 21 (2013)

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